Talking Horses: Dare To Hope to atone for Cup flop in big Yorkshire week

The tip is a previous winner over Ripon’s track and trip, and has been dropped in the ratings since his Goodwood reverse

All roads in British racing lead to Yorkshire for the next eight days and while the £6.8m Ebor Festival at York next week is the main attraction, the £100,000 Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon on Saturday, the feature event on the track’s biggest afternoon of the year, offers punters a tempting chance to limber up for the challenges ahead.

Draw and pace angles are usually the place to start with a big-field sprint handicap, but there is little obvious bias in the draw at Ripon when the runners stretch across the track and the field is likely to split.

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